“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
“Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.”
“No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.”
“To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.”
“She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling”